Phase 2:Kimetdar Kin'toni Clan

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The Kimetdar are adapted to the sheer, vertical drops of the Rysas Emerald Cliffs. They are hyper-compact and muscular build of with long forearms and a broad, low-centered pelvic structure. Being adapted for climbing means they are slow, awkward and unaerodynamic on flat ground. Their skin is mottled forest-green and slate-grey tone to blend in to the moss and cliffs. The skin is also covered in an hydrophobic, micro-grooved lipid layer that stops the heavy mist of the cliffs from waterlogging the skin and stopping cutaneous oxygen absorption.

Their hair is sparse, coarse and needle like, and dark green in color. It grows as downward angled tracts in order to channel air the rain and coastal condensation from their eyes. This also leaves their epidermal layers exposed to the abrasive gusts due to their lack of dense, insulating coat. The oversized eyes are dark color in color, with pupils as horizontal slits in order to accurately judge depth and vertical distance on the high cliffs. The ears are short, thick and backward curved with internal acoustic ridges.

These ridges filter out the loud roars and crashes of the coastal waves and winds. The nose has downward facing slits of nostrils that have fleshy, muscular valves. These valves can seal tightly to deal with the wind-driven sea spray, but while these valves are sealed, they lack an sense of smell. Without their enhanced sense of small, they struggle to track prey. The teeth are hook like with backward-curved serrations, angled for locking onto the slippery and face moving prey of the cliffs.

The claws are long, needle sharp and semi retractable talons containing high-iron keratin, adapted for gripping into the cracks in the cliffs. These teeth are long enough and curved enough to make manual dexterity hard, making fine work impossible. The feet are prehensile, hand-like structures, with opposable toes and high-friction suction pads on both toes and soles. These feet make running on flat surfaces hard. The inner eyes and sinus cavities have enlarged, fluid-filled equilibrium chambers to grant both absolute spatial awareness and an immunity to vertigo.

This system is sensitive to sudden atmospheric pressure drops, such as those on coastal storm. This leads to the massive chambers swelling and severe disorientation and temporary loss of balance. Their tendons are able to look into place using an specialized reflex loop to be able to hang in place for days. The vascular system has heavy muscular valves able to divert blood flow to the skin to maximize oxygen intake. The peripheral blood routing is high pressure enough that even shallow slashes leads to rapid, explosive bleeding.

The blood is sense with cryoprotectant proteins in order to survive the freezing, damp shadows of deep cliff fissures and winter nights by fully stopping cellular freezing. This blood, being thick and sludge like, moves slowly though the body. This leads the stem cells to move more slowly and slowed healing in the limbs. The body's hepatic cell clots have adapted to quickly filter and neutralize marine toxins and salt form their marine and coastal prey. It is adapted for marine and coastal toxins and so has no effect on other toxins.

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